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    There's certainly more things you can throw your money away on. Diesel's cheaper than it has been and so is electricity. It's still part-time for me though because wife wants to see more of the world. Village life is changing slowly but I'm still content in Thailand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    ^And this forum, where he's asked where to buy sex-toys in Bangkok, how much barfines cost, and where to get a kitchen job with a work permit. Yeah this is exactly the sort of thing someone who isn't a clueless fucking wannabe asks all the time
    Jeff, a clueless fucking wannabe?

    'bout right.


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    Quote Originally Posted by YourDaddy View Post
    They are down to comparing prices at McDonald's.

    It almost sounds like me trolling.
    Maybe Jeff should have a look, they might have a list of wages for the type of work he's after.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YourDaddy View Post
    How much was loads of money?
    200-300k baht a month back in 1999-2003. Used to struggle to spend it all wasn't through lack of trying though.

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    I'd leave Thailand on the next plane, if someone slapped down a few million US $, not likely to happen.

    Not done a days paid work, rubber covers the income, 8,9 years, where could I go now.

    Made a choice to escape the work, debt cycle, didn't want to work till I died, so Thailand was the place at the time.

    Tomorrow, will get out of bed, when I feel like it, not by the alarm clock, life runs on my time, not by the bosses time.

    Thailand is not paradise by a long shot, but it can be a lot better than the 9 to 5 life in the west.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamescollister View Post
    I'd leave Thailand on the next plane, if someone slapped down a few million US $, not likely to happen..
    Jim,,gotta say you don't sound entirely happy with your lot. Although you have attained to what some view as nirvana - you've mentioned getting out quite a lot but then post about not having someone to answer to (apart from the real boss ) - as a casual observer its not easy to know if you are happy or not - of course everyone wishes for a better life tho.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buriramboy View Post
    200-300k baht a month back in 1999-2003. Used to struggle to spend it all wasn't through lack of trying though.
    That's about £100k per year in today's money. What job were you doing?

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    Its funny in that when I left the states with my wife to move here to live in our newly finished home I had fully intended to retire...take 2 of that attempt. Then came an exec role here in Thailand as I closed up the doors on my cargo container in the states. So retirement took a back seat again... Take 3. I will say though, working as an expat here is far more enjoyable then working in the west for a host of reasons, the salary and tax benefits are the top 2 along with the work environment is easier.

    At this juncture in my life leaving Thailand never enters my mind. I like it here and moreover where I live here. Location is everything. The political situation here is not even on my radar, 90 day check in stuff is just a part of my life, like paying a bill or something every 90 days. Its noise. Here I do my thing, have numerous hobbies, no nanny policing of everything I do, wife is easy going and older so no BS drama and no matter what most whinge about, the COL is still far cheaper then back in the states because I am not chasing western things as much. I can easily live on $25k to $30K a year here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buriramboy View Post
    200-300k baht a month back in 1999-2003. Used to struggle to spend it all wasn't through lack of trying though.
    I was making a bit over 350k baht a month back from 2005 through 2009 and the company paid my living arrangements and expenses so it was all upside. You physically cannot spend it all. Its definitely an interesting position to be in.
    Last edited by Stumpy; 26-01-2019 at 11:05 AM. Reason: data correction

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    Quote Originally Posted by jamescollister View Post
    I'd leave Thailand on the next plane, if someone slapped down a few million US $, not likely to happen.

    Not done a days paid work, rubber covers the income, 8,9 years, where could I go now.

    Made a choice to escape the work, debt cycle, didn't want to work till I died, so Thailand was the place at the time.

    Tomorrow, will get out of bed, when I feel like it, not by the alarm clock, life runs on my time, not by the bosses time.

    Thailand is not paradise by a long shot, but it can be a lot better than the 9 to 5 life in the west.
    Would love a 9 to 5 gig. Stuck with the 0720 to 1602 one I have though.

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    But you have plan Storekeeper and that's what counts, that and having a plan B for your plan A - many don't.

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    Thailand never really changes at all. Just the people (expats) living here. It's healthy to get on a forum and vent occasionally about Thai habits, driving, etc. But when the place seems to be the bane of your entire existence, like half the muppets on TV, then please do fuck off.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kmart View Post
    Thailand never really changes at all. Just the people (expats) living here. It's healthy to get on a forum and vent occasionally about Thai habits, driving, etc. But when the place seems to be the bane of your entire existence, like half the muppets on TV, then please do fuck off.
    I absolutely agree Kmart, there are things here that make me scratch my head and think..WTF!!!

    That said though, you just take it in stride. There are many on that other site that are utterly consumed with finding and venting every flaw they see and they lose their marbles over it. I refuse to visit the news section nor general because of the twats that post their. Pathetic lot of folks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by YourDaddy View Post
    Are you thinking about leaving Thailand?
    Perfectly content here but if I was thinking of relocating would be a small town on Baja Calif coast. Cheaper, less hassle visa, and imo superior food.

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    Thing is - for all of the whining, complaints and blustering the complainants do seem to have difficulty answering this one simple question "if it's such a burr in your saddle... Then, just why are you still here?"

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    Quote Originally Posted by bowie View Post
    Thing is - for all of the whining, complaints and blustering the complainants do seem to have difficulty answering this one simple question "if it's such a burr in your saddle... Then, just why are you still here?"
    I know Bowie. Its really odd to be honest and if someone even posts a response along those lines they fire back with great vengeance like some how that is an unacceptable response to their continuous bitch and moan posts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bowie View Post
    Thing is - for all of the whining, complaints and blustering the complainants do seem to have difficulty answering this one simple question "if it's such a burr in your saddle... Then, just why are you still here?"
    Because for some people it's all they've got, sold up or burnt bridges back in farangland and nothing and no one to return to. They're trapped till they die.

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    Quote Originally Posted by buriramboy View Post
    Because for some people it's all they've got, sold up or burnt bridges back in farangland and nothing and no one to return to. They're trapped till they die.
    Smeg just unzipped and got out the babyoil reading that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPPR2 View Post
    fire back with great vengeance
    Yup, gotta admit, these anonymous internet websites do attract a most passionate set of keyboard warriors. Just love the displayed mediocrity – make a comment they perceive as bias against their point of view – which of course is unchallengeable and the word of the Lord, and you’d think you’ve killed their dog. So be it.

    The anonymity loosens lips, puffs up chests, emboldens the timid and removes inhibitions (and intelligence) much better than a bottle of jack.

    So Be It – the entertainment value alone makes it worthwhile. Solid undeniable proof that the creationists are right.

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    The ones who are trapped are those who had nothing in the first place but who came out in the good times and had a whale of a time subsisting on the margins, tefling, selling condos or hustling dubious insurances. They are now in their late 30s/early 40s without a pot to piss in and with a kid in tow and a wife with whom he shares two rooms in a project on the periphery of central Bangkok. Must be a real worry as those prison bars of circumstance close in ever nearer until he finally bites the bullet, deserts his family and scuttles back to a grubby bolthole in some suburban dystopia in Crewe counting the number of hooded morons slouching past his KFC with their cellulite riddled baby mothers pushing their snot nosed urchin brats in the driving rain as he nurses his tepid coffee waiting for the next Uber call to drive his 12 year old Vectra.

    The horror, the horror!

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    Quote Originally Posted by buriramboy View Post
    Because for some people it's all they've got, sold up or burnt bridges back in farangland and nothing and no one to return to. They're trapped till they die.
    Ya know, I don't think as many are as trapped as we think. I just think they are bored shitless and have no personal drive to change their situation so they prefer to "howl at the moon" as they say. Sad part is, it ultimately consumes them and those are the ones that find low balcony railings or roof tops in various popular locations and take a swan dive.

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    so,,, after 46 posts of mostly pom whingers , winging about pom wingers. uavtalarf. winging is healthy, so much so that its actualy built into the military psycy.... ie.. when the troops are winging alls well, go figure.

    seemsto me alls well.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPPR2 View Post
    I know Bowie. Its really odd to be honest and if someone even posts a response along those lines they fire back with great vengeance like some how that is an unacceptable response to their continuous bitch and moan posts.
    Quite the long standing paradox within these circles that we keep.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JPPR2 View Post
    I don't think as many are as trapped as we think.
    He's commented in the past about being desperate to get out of Crewe (believe me, anyone would be) so there's a lot of projection in his post.

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    I enjoy coming to Thailand as a tourist now for 3 months a year, life in Bangkok is too limited, and I meet more interesting people and better food in Europe and in my trips to the US

    for me it comes down to be surrounded by better people, not a better lifestyle and cheap value

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